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Delta variant is dangerous & is continuing to evolve and mutate, says WHO chief
Sat Jul 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The world is in a very “dangerous period” of the COVID-19 pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta, which is continuing to evolve and mutate, World Health Orga...
Tirath Singh Rawat resigns: Congress accuses Modi, Nadda of ‘CM swap scheme, loot of power’
Sat Jul 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A day after Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat resigned less than four months after taking over, the Congress Saturday held a press conference to dwell on the political ...
CDS calls Air Force a support arm; IAF chief disagrees, says huge role
Sat Jul 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Rekindling the debate on the roles within the proposed integrated theatre commands, General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff, Friday described the Air Force as a “support arm” b...
Explained: In Leh and Kargil, different reasons to oppose Ladakh’s current status
Sat Jul 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
When Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two Union Territories on August 5, 2019, Ladakh was seen welcoming the reorganisation. Its MP, Jamyang Tsering Namgyal of the BJP, declar...
After sudden defeat, captured Ethiopian soldiers are marched to prison
Sat Jul 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Thousands of Ethiopian prisoners of war were paraded through the regional capital of Tigray on Friday as jubilant crowds lined the streets to jeer the captives and cheer the Tigray...
Probe Agency Issues Fresh Summons To Anil Deshmukh In Money Laundering Case
Sat Jul 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh has been issued fresh summons by Enforcement Directorate (ED) for appearance on July 5 in a money laundering case investigation being...
Calcutta High Court Directs Bengal To Provide Security To BJP's Suvendu Adhikari
Sat Jul 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the West Bengal Government to provide security to Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari that was withdrawn by...
Joe Biden Hails "Historic" Rebound As US Adds 850,000 Jobs In June
Sat Jul 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
President Joe Biden on Friday cheered the "historic" US rebound from the Covid-19 crisis as the economy gained 850,000 new jobs in June, cementing the evidence of a broad recovery....
Uttarakhand Chief Minister TS Rawat's Job Hinges On Bypoll, Rift In BJP Not Helping
Fri Jul 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat has been in Delhi for the past three days over worries that he may lose his four-month-old job because of the uncertainty over an elec...
"For PM To Decide": Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Against General VK Singh
Fri Jul 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Supreme Court has dismissed a PIL (public interest litigation) seeking to remove Union Minister VK Singh over alleged anti-Army statements he had made on February 7; the statem...
BSF personnel open fire at ‘Pakistani drone’ spotted near border in Jammu
Fri Jul 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Border Security Force opened fire at a suspected Pakistani surveillance drone early on Friday after they spotted it near the international border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Jabowal...
Central Teams Rushed To 6 States Reporting Increased COVID-19 Cases
Fri Jul 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The central government has sent six high-level multi-disciplinary public health teams to six states reporting a high number of COVID-19 cases. The teams will assist these six state...
US Military and veterans struggle with vaccination rates in their ranks
Fri Jul 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Denis McDonough, the secretary of veterans affairs, said this week that he was considering a move to compel workers at VA hospitals to get vaccinated, fearing that centers with low...
US hands Bagram Airfield to Afghans after nearly 20 years
Fri Jul 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
After nearly 20 years, the US military left Bagram Airfield, the epicentre of its war to oust the Taliban and hunt down the al Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on A...
Jawan Killed In Encounter With Terrorists In Jammu And Kashmir's Pulwama
Fri Jul 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
An Army jawan was killed in an encounter with terrorists in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation at ...
COVID-19: UAE Bars Citizens From Travelling To India, Pakistan, Other Countries
Fri Jul 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has banned its citizens from traveling to several countries including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. This comes after the UAE last...
J&K ‘conversion’ row: Man in jail, sister says ‘didn’t like relationship’
Thu Jul 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The family of Shahid Nazir Bhat hasn’t seen him since the morning of June 21, when he left home for a walk. For two days, they did not hear from him till police came knocking on th...
5 Chief Ministers, 20 Deputy Chief Ministers: OP Rajbhar's Formula For UP
Thu Jul 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Five chief ministers and 20 deputy chief ministers during its five years tenure is the new social engineering formula for the coalition proposed by Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (...
Era Of China Being "Bullied Is Gone Forever": Xi Jinping
Thu Jul 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
President Xi Jinping hailed China's "irreversible" course from colonial humiliation to great-power status at the centenary celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday,...
Gulshan Kumar Murder: High Court Upholds Rauf Merchant's Conviction
Thu Jul 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the conviction of Abdul Rauf Merchant in the murder case of Gulshan Kumar, founder of T-series. Abdul Rauf Merchant, an aide of gangster Da...